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Top Ten Most Totally Bogus Web Design Mistakes of 2005

From Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005 (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox):

  1. Don’t make fields mandatory unless they truly are.
  2. Support autofill to the max by avoiding unusual field labels (just use Name, Address, etc.).
  3. Set the keyboard focus to the first field when the form is displayed. This saves a click.

emphasis mine

I’ve got a place in my heart for usability curmudgeon Jakob Nielsen, but “to the max?” Yikes.

Usability advice for 2005… in hammer pants. Badical.

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